Riptide is wearing flip-flops today just because we can. It’s 73 degrees out and beautiful after a long, horrible week of prolonged cold. Our winter wardrobe — some hoodies and sweatpants — is in serious need of laundering, and we are really enjoying this T-shirt weather. Alas, the gods of…
The news for Florida manatees started off strong last year, as wildlife officials announced that their survey found a record number of manatees in our waters. In fact, they had found 500 more than ever before, but 2009 ended on a sour note when 429 manatees were estimated to have…
It looked, for a hot second at least, that Tropical Storm Henri might become something of a problem Floridians, but forecasters now say the system is losing strength fast and will dissipate by tomorrow.We’re thankful the storm will not go around selectively blowing down trees in the yards of people…
El Niño, the noted periodic Pacific Ocean warming thing, has a positive effect for us living on the East Coast: It depresses strong hurricane activity.According to a new study in the journal Nature, global warming could mess all of that up by strengthening El Niño’s obscure twin — also called El Niño…
You know what happens when it is a slow news day and particularly hot? We write posts about how hot it is. According to CBS4, today’s temperature of 95 degrees tied the all-time high for any July 7. It hasn’t been this hot since 2004. Yesterday’s mercury reading of 95…
A little after noon, some serious storms blew through South Beach and the rest of Miami. I was in my apartment on Meridian Avenue at the time and it was a hellacious thunderstorm — 60 mph winds, about an hour straight of hail, palm fronds flying through the air. The…
We aren’t entirely sure what has happened, but Twitter updates from Cocaine Cowboys producer Alfred Spellman indicate that a piece ceiling in the Fontainebleau’s lobby, near the entrance to LIV, has caved in. The area has been roped off and sandbagged presumably in order to prevent water from rushing into the downstairs…
New Times is not known for its weather coverage, but, God dang, it is raining like a mothaf*cker right now. Currently our offices are out of power (but somehow we still have Internet!), and according to CBS4, 2,600 other people in Miami-Dade have also lost power. The site also claims there…
The tide may be turning: Wal-Mart has recently announced that it will offer customers reusable bags made from recyclable materials. And, want more evidence that plastic is bad for marine mammals? Just ask Pamela Sweeney of the Marine Animal Rescue Society here in Miami. She missed the deadline for this…
If you lived where she lives, you might think the government was all wet, too.
